Caring Labor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9768936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Himmelweit (0000-0002-2697-4204, The Open University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 561 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-38 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716299561001002 |
| OpenAlex | W4241063046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 5 |
Caring has two different aspects: the motivation of caring for other people and the activity of caring for them. Furthermore, good-quality care depends on the developing relationship between a carer and the person cared for. In paid employment, however, rela tionships are usually assumed to be reduced to an exchange transaction and motivation to be simply monetary, provoking concern about whether paying for care diminishes its quality and authenticity. Similar issues have arisen in the context of emotional labor more generally. Much emotional labor, however, is of a transitory nature in which no long-term relationship is set up between worker and customer. This article argues that because of the relationship that tends to develop, paid caring may not be so different from unpaid caring. Rather, caring occupations should be seen as part of a whole class of occupations that are not fully commodified, in which workers have motivations that are not purely monetary and also care about the results of their work
Commodification · Context (archaeology · Database transaction · Economics · Emotional labor · Labour economics · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Work (physics · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Dirty Work and Dirtier Work
Exploring New Directions for Research in the Radical Political Economy of Consumption
‘I do not want to be one of her favourites’. Emotional display and the co-production of frontline care services
Faking Versus Feeling Emotions
Nurse’s View of Life and Death as Peaceful Death
“Invisible frontline”
The feminised service sector
A Consideration of Love Labour in Informal Caring
The bodily ambiguity of social reproduction
I'm just there to ease the burden’
Disposable Time, Freedom, and Care
In the Middle of a Family Story
The Hegemony Cracked
Emerging Theories of Care Work
Feminist everyday political economy
Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction
Ageing and Care Poverty
Toward Maintaining and Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
Care
Why a feminist ethics of care and socio-ecological justice lens matter for global, interdisciplinary research on water security
Dimensions of job precariousness and associations with workers’ health and well-being in Swedish homecare
Divergent welfare regimes, shared challenges
Rethinking NGOization as Postfeminist Practice
What Mainstream Economics Should Learn From the Ethics of Care
Discovering the Hidden Work of Commodified Care
The Productivity of Care
The Spaces of Personalisation
Work arrangements in digitally mediated care and domestic work
Care, Social (Re)production and Global Labour Migration
Unpaid HIV/Aids Care in Southern Africa
Reciprocity in Caring Labor
Crossing the Great Divide
Viscera, Emotion, and Administration
Actions for Care
Care Workers in English Care Homes
Care Policy Determinants and Effects
Relations of production and social reproduction, the state and the everyday
The Art of Pacifying an Aggressive Client
Gendered, Invisible Work in Non‐profit Social Service Organizations
Gendered Agency and Emotions in the Field of Care Work
A new currency for paid care
Gendered violence, frontline workers, and intersections of space, care and agency in Dharavi, India
Knowledge needs and use in long‐term care homes for older people
The problems of social care in English nursing and residential homes for older people and the role of state regulation
Survey Article
Social Provisioning within a Culture-Nature Life Process
It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade”
It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade
The Commodification of Care
It’s a Dignity Thing”
Extreme exploitation—workplace violence in the aged care market
Maternal-biased parental leave
Care relationships, quality of care and migrant workers caring for older people
Caring relationships and their role in users’ choices
Looking for an emergency door
Caregiving Around the Clock
Aggregating dispersed workers
Care in Uncaring Places
The consequences of caring
Who rides the glass escalator? Gender, race and nationality in the national nursing assistant study
Rethinking job satisfaction in care work
How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences
The dialectics of health and social care
Caring labour, intersectionality and worker satisfaction
Animal Shelter Emotion Management
Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary
Re-Shaping Social Care Services for Older People in England
Metaphors at Work
Reflexive convention
Motivation in caring labor
Paperwork, Rotas, Words and Posters
Gender, migration and care deficits
"Ministry of Presence" as Emotional Labor
Emotional Labor On and Off Water
| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,16 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 79 |